A Theoretical Evaluation on the Social Accounting Matrix

Neoliberalism, After the Second World War; the social, cultural and economic dimensions of the policies carried out with the rise of the developmental tendency have gained importance. The fact that the national income accounts did not show the relations between the accounts so clearly caused the use of social accounts that show the relations between the accounts more clearly. In fact, many data are shown in a certain order with the method called social accounts matrix, which is the representation of social accounts in the matrix form. In the majority of studies developed in Turkey which use the social accounting matrix aim to create a database for computable general equilibrium models. There are fewer studies compared to other areas related to the social accounting matrix. The main reason for this is the problems occurred in publishing, sorting and harmonizing the data.